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Wisden: Another Clever Bloomsbury Brand

Bloomsbury has featured on these pages a number of times. To my mind, too much of the focus on Bloomsbury is about Potter and Rowling. When I’ve been interested in Bloomsbury it is generally for their clever acquisitions and what … Continue reading

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Links Of Interest (At Least To Me) 11/03/2010

Most of the links I send out these days, go via Twitter but I think it’s a good idea to restart these Links! Amazon has rolled out Author Central to the UK. A nice feature for an author, a worry … Continue reading

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Kindle goes worldwide

IT WILL SHIP TO IRELAND (SEE BELOW FOR MORE) So Amazon announced that they are now allowing pre-orders of the Kindle worldwide. They launched no country specific sites for this, just a letter on the homepage of Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr … Continue reading

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Publishers, Survival is not a right!

Eoin Purcell Noble thoughts, but misplaced I read an interesting blog post the other day about the demise of print publishing. It was written by Indie Publisher, Barbara Philips of Bridge Works Books on the Wylie-Merrick Literary Agency blog. The … Continue reading

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Bloomsbury’s digital strategy begin to take shape

Eoin Purcell I hate to say, I told you so! It has been a hobby horse of mine for some time that Bloomsbury’s clever bolt on acquisitions have real potential for online and digital development: nearly all the moves place … Continue reading

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